De Tour Summer Speaker Series

DETOUR — The De Tour Friends of the Library has announced the July author presentations, scheduled for July 11 and July 25.

DETOUR — The De Tour Friends of the Library has announced the July author presentations, scheduled for July 11 and July 25.

LSSU professor Julie Brooks Barbour will read from her chapbook Come to Me and Drink at DeTour Public Library on July 11, 2013 at 6:30 p.m. A discussion and book signing will follow. Barbour received an MFA in Creative Writing from UNC-Greensboro. Her chapbook was published by Finishing Line Press in 2012, and her poems have appeared in numerous publications, including Connotation Press: An Online Artifact, Literary Mama, Verse Daily, and The Way North: Collected Upper Peninsula New Works. She teaches in the English Department at Lake Superior State University where she is co-editor of the journal Border Crossing.

Romance author Donna Winters, a Garden Peninsula writer, will give her presentation on Thursday, July 25, at 6:30 p.m. Winters, the author of seventeen novels in her Great Lakes Romances® Series, will explain how she got started in the writing and publishing business, and will reveal some of the intriguing stories behind the real ones in her series. She will save plenty of time for questions and for autographing her books for interested readers.

Winters' series offers wholesome fiction for readers twelve and up, and features Michigan settings on both the Upper and Lower Peninsulas during the late 1800s and early 1900s. Locations depicted in the series include Mackinac Island, South Manitou Island, North Manitou Island, Traverse City, L'Anse Bay on the Keweenaw Bay, Calumet, Fayette on the Garden Peninsula, and many more. To learn more about Winters and her series, visit http://greatlakesromances.com.

Come and join us for an evening of entertainment at the DeTour Public Library. Refreshments will be served at each author presentation.